2015 Fluff Love Awards!

Welcome to the First Annual Fluff Love Awards!

One year ago, a group of moms with a cloth diaper obsession started a Facebook group. It was small, it was quick, and it didn’t even spell out “cloth diaper” in the name – but boy, did it grow! Since its inception on July 4th, 2014, Fluff Love & CD Science has grown to over 59,000 members, a groundbreaking website, and much more. With our first year behind us, Fluff Love feels it’s time to honor those who brought us to where we are today – the cloth diapers themselves. So, without further ado, I present to you the 2015 Fluff Love Awards!

The categories

In May and June of 2015, we conducted a series of surveys asking Fluff Love members to rate more than 100 brands and styles of diapers. With over 7,000 responses, our survey data provided an accurate snapshot of the Fluff Love Community. For each style of diaper (pockets, AIOs, AI2s, fitteds, flats, prefolds, and covers) we gave out the following awards:

Overall winner: In this category, we wanted to balance both popularity and top reviews. For each style, we calculated the median number of responses per brand. The overall winner was the brand with the highest overall satisfaction rating that received at least the median number of responses.

Hidden Gem: This award was given to a highly rated but less popular diaper. The diaper with a lower than median number of total responses and the highest overall satisfaction rating was named hidden gem.

Honorable mention: Any diaper with more than 15 responses was eligible to receive this award. Honorable mentions went to two or three brands with very high overall satisfaction ratings.

Most popular: Regardless of overall satisfaction ratings, the diaper with the most responses in each category was named most popular.

Best budget option: This was given to a lower priced diaper with a high overall satisfaction rating. Note that it’s not necessarily the most cheapest option out there, but instead, a well-priced product that also delivers great service.

We also compiled winners for two special awards:

Fluff Love Favorites: The brands that consistently were rated very highly across multiple products or in multiple categories.

Customer Service Stars: The brands with the top rated customer service.

And finally, Fluff Love admins voted on several special awards.

Making Cloth Accessible to All: For a charity focusing on helping low income families access cloth diapering supplies

Most improved wash instructions

Humanitarian award: For good works

Making cloth mainstream

Fluff Love Favorite New Prints and solids

And the winners are…

All in Ones (AIOS)

Overall Winner: Smart Bottoms

Honorable Mention: Blueberry Simplex

Honorable Mention: bumGenius Freetimes

Honorable Mention: Chelory

Most Popular: bumGenius Freetimes

Hidden Gem: RagaBabe Easy AIO

Best Value Option: Happy Flute

All in Twos (AI2s)

Overall Winner: Lil Helpers

Honorable Mention: GroVia

Honorable Mention: Funky Fluff

Most Popular: bumGenius Flips

Hidden Gem: Blueberry Capri

Best Value Option: Buttons

Pocket diapers

Overall Winner: bumGenius 4.0

Honorable Mention: Glow Bug

Honorable Mention: Nicki’s

Most Popular: Alva

Hidden Gem: Ella Bella Bum

Best Value Option: Sunbaby

Fitted Diapers

Overall Winner: GMD Workhorse

Honorable Mention: Sustainablebabyish

Honorable Mention: Twinkie Tush

Most Popular: GMD Workhorse

Hidden Gem: Tots Bots Bamboozles

Best Value Option: GMD Workhorse

Flat Diapers

Overall Winner: GMD Cloth-eez birdseye flats

Honorable Mention: Diaper Rite bamboo flats

Honorable Mention: OsoCozy birdseye flats

Most Popular: Flour sack towels

Hidden Gem: Nicki’s bamboo flats

Best Value Option: Flour sack towels

Prefold Diapers

Overall Winner: GMD Cloth-eez cotton prefolds

Honorable Mention: GMD Cloth-eez bamboo prefolds

Honorable Mention: OsoCozy bamboo prefolds

Most Popular: Gerber Prefolds

Hidden Gem: Nicki’s bamboo prefolds

Best Value Option: Nicki’s bamboo prefolds

Diaper Covers

Overall Winner: Blueberry Coverall

Honorable Mention: Rumparooz

Honorable Mention: Thirsties

Most Popular: Thirsties

Hidden Gem: Assunta

Best Value Option: Assunta

Special Awards

Fluff Love Favorite Brand (Note: No ranking within this group)

Nicki’s Diapers

bumGenius

Green Mountain Diapers

Blueberry

Lil Helpers

Customer Service Star (Note: No ranking within this group)

Lil Helpers

Funky Fluff

Green Mountain Diapers

GroVia

AppleCheeks

Nicki’s Diapers

Admin Awards

Making Cloth Accessible to All: The Rebecca Foundation

Most Improved Wash Instructions: Cotton Babies

Humanitarian Award: Lil Helpers

Making Cloth Mainstream: Gerber AIO

Fluff Love Favorite New Print, 1st Place: Blueberry Foxes

Fluff Love Favorite New Print, 2nd place: bumGenius Harper

Fluff Love Favorite New Print, 3rd Place: Alva Don’t Let the Muggles Get you Down

Fluff Love Favorite New Solid, 1st Place: GroVia Little Warriors

Fluff Love Favorite New Solid, 2nd Place: bumGenius Stellar

Fluff Love Favorite New Solid, 3rd Place: Sunbaby Teal

About the data:

The surveys were conducted using a professional version of Survey Monkey and data were analyzed in Microsoft Excel. Various quality checks were performed on the data to ensure accuracy.